Board of Directors
Josh Jones-Dilworth
CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc.
Josh has spent his career making sure that what’s important gets your attention.
Josh is best known as CEO of JDI (Jones-Dilworth, Inc.) which he founded in 2009. JDI is a boutique consultancy that brings emerging technologies to market. In 2012, Josh co-founded The Daily Dot, and currently serves on its Board. The Daily Dot is an online newspaper covering Internet culture, and one of the fastest-growing online media ventures of all-time. Today, the Dot is read by 20 million people. In 2013, he co-founded Totem, and remains a Director of the company. Totem is a PR software startup focused on hosted press pages that 8 out of 10 journalists prefer.
Josh is currently working on a new healthcare startup called Litmus, which is commercializing breakthrough research out of the University of Chicago. Josh is an advisor to over a dozen companies, and an active angel investor. He is a frequent teacher, speaker and guest writer.
Josh Jones-Dilworth Board Chair
Independent Advisor / Board Member
Julie is an experienced marketer with over a decade of senior executive experience in helping high-growth companies build positioning, products, organizations, and cultures that scale. She was most recently the CMO of GoNoodle, a kids media and technology company, where she helped parents and educators find new ways to keep kids physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy during COVID-19. Prior to that, Julie spent nearly two decades in agency PR culminating in her founding Inner Circle Labs, a marketing communications company focused on frontier technology, which was sold to Highwire PR in Jan. 2018.
Julie is deeply invested in creating strategies and stories that help the startups and organizations that are working to change the world. Outside of her advisory work, Julie spends her time mentoring women in business and working with organizations involved in fighting for immigrant detainee rights, equality in education, and the environment.
Julie Crabill
Dave Farace
Head of School, McDonogh School
Board of Directors
Dave Farace, currently Head of School at McDonogh School, has dedicated his entire career to independent schools. His professional life started at McDonogh where, over the course of more than a decade, he held various positions including Director of Upper School Admissions, Director of Alumni Relations, and Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving. He also taught and coached middle and upper school students. In 2007, Dave moved to Alabama to be Director of Advancement and External Affairs at Randolph School in Huntsville. From there he went on to serve as Head of School at Montgomery Academy in Alabama and The Bolles School in Florida.
Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a NAIS/E.E. Ford Fellow, which is granted to individuals who successfully complete this distinguished leadership development program for independent school leaders. Dave and his wife, Becky, have three children who attend McDonogh.
Dave Farace
Linda Haitani
Linda Haitani is an experienced business leader and entrepreneur who has worked with private schools for over 20 years. She was co-founder and CEO of Ravenna Solutions, a technology company offering transformational K-12 admission software. Currently, Linda is working with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) as a member of the Future of Independent Schools committee.
Linda Haitani
Michelle Lipkowitz
Baltimore Office Managing Partner; Executive Committee Member;
Firmwide Diversity & Inclusion Partner
Michelle N. Lipkowitz is the Baltimore Office Managing Partner, an Executive
Committee Member, and the firmwide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Partner for
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP. She focuses her practice on commercial
litigation, white collar defense, and government investigations.
Michelle has a breadth of litigation experience, including traditional criminal
experience; and extensive experience with highly sensitive matters and crisis
management, including handling the press. Her practice includes internal and
external investigations, shareholder disputes, class actions, construction, and
contractual disputes. She also has significant experience defending colleges and
universities, and advising educational institutions.
Michelle has extensive experience before administrative bodies, and in state and
federal courts throughout the country. She represents clients from a broad range of
industries, including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, education, financial services,
construction, and retail and telecommunications; as well as governmental entities
and nonprofits.
Michelle earned her J.D. from Georgetown Law, and her B.A. from Harvard
University.
Michelle Lipkowitz
Paul T. Mumma
Paul is an experienced early stage startup executive, lecturer, strategy consultant and lawyer. He served as COO and CEO at Cerego (a leading adaptive learning tool used by universities and organizations around the world) for many years, and today works at Universe (the first website builder designed for iPhones). In these roles Paul has built products used by millions of people, and scaled and led teams of passionate people looking to improve education and work with software.
Paul frequently advises private equity firms with investment diligence issues across industries. He has taught at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since 2017 and is a licensed attorney. He lives in the Boston area with his three sons and his wife Kirsten (an education policy researcher.
Paul T. Mumma
Vince Talbert
Entrepreneur and Founder, Bill Me Later
Vince is an investor, advisor and instructor in the Baltimore philanthropic and education community supporting efforts to transform public education. He has 25 years of marketing, Internet and credit card experience. Vince is currently the Chairman of the Board for Network for Good. Vince joined Network for Good after the acquisition of GiveCorps where he was CEO. Prior to GiveCorps, he was a VP at PayPal. He joined PayPal through the $1 billion acquisition of Bill Me Later, Inc. in which he was a founder and led marketing. Prior to Bill Me Later, he led Internet Marketing for First USA where he was named IAB’s 1999 “Marketer of the Year”. He started his career at Citibank. Vince earned his MBA at the University of Virginia and his BS at Towson University. He is a lifelong Baltimore area resident.
Vince Talbert
Ann Teaff
Former Head of School, Harpeth Hall
Ann began her career in education as a middle and upper school history teacher at University School of Nashville. Ann was Head of School at Harpeth Hall in Nashville from 1998-2014. In that role, she was responsible for the total management of the School (670 students, 150 faculty and staff) including support and selection of the faculty and administration, the admission and counseling of students, the financial viability of the School and subsequent fundraising, and the governance of the School through the work of the Board of Trustees. Before that, she was Head of Upper School from 1988-1998, and Assistant Head of School from 1991-1998 at the Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, Maryland.
She is a member of National Coalition of Girls’ Schools, The Head Mistresses Association of the East, as well as the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls. In her association with these organizations, she has served as a leader, initiating conferences and chairing committees. Ann graduated from Fontbonne College with a Bachelors in history in 1969.
She earned her Masters in the Art of Teaching from Vanderbilt University in 1971 and her Masters in Educational Administration from Columbia in 2000. In her studies, Ann conducted research, including design of the instrument, for a Geraldine Dodge Foundation study to determine the factors that attract and retain teachers.
Ann Teaff
John Thomas
Headmaster, Flint Hill School
Since 2005, John Thomas has served as Flint Hill’s Headmaster. He is a graduate of the McDonogh School in Baltimore, Maryland, and holds degrees from Randolph Macon College and Towson University, with a certificate in school psychology from the State of Maryland. He is the co-author of “Psychodiagnostic Evaluation of Children: A Casebook Approach,” and has articles published in the book “Parenting Teens: Collected Essays by Independent School Educators,” published by the Secondary School Admission Test Board. John has served on the Board of Trustees for the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS) and the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW), and is a current Board member for Emerging Scholars. He and his wife Emily, a former teacher, have three grown sons with their own families.